Ephesians 5:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Common English Bible

²⁸ That’s how husbands ought to love their wives—in the same way as they do their own bodies. Anyone who loves his wife loves himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:28 Cross References

Matthew 19:5

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh?

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Ephesians 5:29

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

1 Peter 3:7

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.